Delton T. Daigle

Term Associate Professor, Director of Online Learning
Schar School of Policy and Government – George Mason University
ddaigle@gmu.edu

Education:

Doctor of Philosophy
06/2006 – 08/2010
Department of Political Science, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH. Supervisor: Herbert
F. Weisberg; Field Exams: American Political Science, Political Research Methodology.

Master of Arts
01/2003 – 06/2005
Department of Political Science, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH Major: American Political Science, Graduate Certificate / Specialization: Survey Research.

Master of Arts
09/2000 – 08/2002
Department of Political Science, McGill University, Montréal, PQ. Major: Canadian Politics.

Bachelor of Arts (with distinction)
09/1994 – 05/1996
Department of Political Science, Brock University, St. Catherines, ON. Major: Political Science.

Academic Employment History and Related:

Courses Taught

Quantitative Political Analysis (UG)
Introduction to Data Analysis (Grad – MA/PhD)
Probability and Statistics (UG)
Political Behavior and Public Opinion (UG)
Introduction to American Government (UG)
Introduction to Canadian Government (UG)
Political Psychology (UG)
Introduction to Survey Research (upper UG/MA)

Director of Online Learning – 2020 to present
Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University

Term Associate Professor - 2019 to present
George Mason University (Fairfax, VA), Schar School of Policy and Government. (3:3 teaching load).

Term Assistant Professor - 2011 to 2019
George Mason University (Fairfax, VA), Schar School of Policy and Government (formerly the Department of Government and International Affairs). (4:4 teaching load through SP 2015, thereafter 3:3).

Adjunct Professor – 2009 - 2011
University of Guelph (Guelph, Ontario) 2011
Muskingum University (New Concord, Ohio) 2009 - 2010

Lecturer – 2005 – 2008
The Ohio State University (Columbus, Ohio) 2005, 2006 – 2008 Grant MacEwan University (Edmonton, Alberta) 2006

Teaching Assistant
The Ohio State University 2004-2005 McGill University 2001 – 2002

Other research and teaching related positions

2005 – 2006 Grant MacEwan University - Institutional Research Associate for the Dean of the Business School. Prepared research for move from 2 year college to 4 year university.

2003 – 2005 The Ohio State University – Center for Survey Research. Researcher responsible for software implementation and survey coding development, call center supervision, focus group planning, and developing and supporting client relationships.

Curriculum Development

George Mason University 2011 – present
2020 - 2021 – Director of Online Learning – coordinated and supported the transition of more than 100 full and part-time Schar School colleagues to fully online teaching environments (both synchronous and asynchronous), hybrid teaching environments, and face to face learning environments prepared to pivot online. Coordinated resources and trained 3 GPAs to assist in the support of faculty. Recruited faculty to participate in pedagogical training events both in the Schar School and at GMU’s Stearns Center for Teaching Excellence.

2018 - 2019 Mason Core – IT and Computing Committee

2018 development – data visualization for policy and government (advanced UG). UG Methods – consolidated all sections into a master curriculum.

UG Methods Online

Graduate Methods (program accreditation, courses, sequences, workshops and curriculum plans).

UG Political Psychology – development of offering.

GMU – Master of Public Administration – Accreditation renewal team.

GMU – UG core competencies – piloted “analytics” component (2016 – 2017). Mason Core courses – Evaluation and assessment (2018).

Grant MacEwan University 2006
UG Methods – Master Syllabi Project

Scholarship:

Books

2021
(Contracted, currently writing) – Daigle, Delton T. “An Introduction to Polimetrics – Research Methods for Politics and Policy” Sage/CQ Press.

2021
(contracted - postponed) Daigle, Delton and Aaron Stuvland “Populism Nativism and Economic Uncertainty Revisited: Hungary, Canada, Spain, and Italy” forthcoming Palgrave McMillan.

2019
Daigle, Delton, Josephine Neulen and Austin Hofeman “Populism, Nativism, and Economic Uncertainty in the British, French, and German Elections of 2017” Palgrave MacMillan.

Manuscript assistance:

Dancing without Partners (2007), The Total Survey Error Approach (2005), Anatomy of a Liberal Victory (2002)

Book Chapters

2021
Daigle, Delton T. “Chapter Title TBA” forthcoming in Brown, Mitchell, Nordyke, Shane, and Theis, Cameron (Eds.). Teaching Undergraduate Political Methodology. Elgar.

2021
Daigle, Delton T. “Chapter Title TBA” forthcoming in Brown, Mitchell, Nordyke, Shane, and Theis, Cameron (Eds.). Teaching Graduate Political Methodology. Elgar.

Articles

2021
Daigle, Delton T. & Stuvland, Aaron. “Social Presence as Best Practice: The Online Classroom Needs to Feel Real”. PS: Political Science & Politics. Vol. 54, No. 1.

2020
Daigle, Delton, and Aaron Stuvland. “Is Anybody There? Exploring the Role of Social Presence in an Online Political Science Research Methods Class.” APSA Preprints.

2020
Delton T. Daigle & Aaron Stuvland. “Teaching Political Science Research Methods Across Delivery Modalities: Comparing Outcomes Between Face-to-Face and Distance- Hybrid Courses”, Journal of Political Science Education.

2018
Daigle, Delton and Austin Hofeman. 2018 Teaching & Learning Conference Track Summaries “Teaching, Writing, and Information Literacy” PS: Political Science and Politics Vol. 51, No. 3. Pp. 690 – 692.

2014
Haji, Faizal A, Celina DaSilva, Delton T. Daigle, and Adam Dubrowski “From bricks to buildings: adapting the Medical Research Council framework to develop programs of research in simulation education and training for the health professions.” Simulation in Healthcare 9(4) pp. 249 – 259.

Under Development

TBA
(Under revision) Daigle, Delton “There are Wishers and Thinkers: Examining how Political Sophistication and the Viability Heuristic Interacted to Produce the 2008 Democratic Party Nominee” revising submission for JEPOP.

TBA
(in development) –Daigle, Delton and Austin Hofeman “The American Political Science curriculum”. National department survey fielded Jan 2018, results reported to APSA- TLC in Baltimore, Feb, 2018, paper under revision.

Major External Research

2018-19
Designer, Manager, Analyst - Smithsonian / Stars and Stripes / Schar School - Veterans Day Poll. Poll conducted of active duty and former American military personnel on numerous social issues facing America’s military. Results published in Jan/Feb 2019 Smithsonian Magazine, Jan 2, 2019 Stars and Stripes, picked up on wire services and reprinted or incorporated in dozens of media outlets around the world.

2017-19
Consultant - Schar School Washington Post Polls. Consulting with Washington Post with a team of Schar School researchers polling political attitudes about hot political topics, Virginia, and national elections.

2016
Designer, Manager, Analyst - Charity and Security Network (through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation) Financial Access for Charities Survey. Organized, wrote and executed a major survey of American Charities operating overseas under new banking regulatory framework. 3 significant publications as a result: Delton T. Daigle, Stefan Toepler, and Sue M. Smock, Financial Access for Charities Survey 2016: Data Report to the Charity and Security Network Version 1.1 (Arlington, VA: George Mason University, 2016); “Financial Access for US Nonprofits” Charity and Security Network, 2016; “HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE: USAID Should Improve Information Collection and Communication to Help Mitigate Implementers’ Banking Challenges” US GAO, September 2018.

Significant Older Scholarship –

PhD Dissertation – The Ohio State University, Defended on July 9th, 2010. “Catching the Big Wave: Public Opinion Polls and Bandwagons in US and Canadian Elections”. Online at http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1282138561.

Adopted Policy Paper for the Government of Alberta (Ministry of Advanced Education), 2006 “MacEwan’s BCOM Proposal Eases Pressure on Edmonton’s Business Labour Market”, my Edmonton Alberta Labor Market Study was prepared on behalf of the Grant MacEwan School of Business. MacEwan’s proposal was accepted; Grant MacEwan granted university charter Sept., 2009.

Master’s Thesis – McGill University 2002 Daigle, Delton T. (2002) “Are young Canadians less partisan than their parents?” MA Thesis archived at the McGill University McLennan Library (Montreal, Quebec). AS42 M36 2002 D354.

Conference Participation

APSA Teaching and Learning Conference (APSA) – TLC 2020. Albuquerque, Nm.

American Political Science Association (APSA) – Annual Meeting 2019. Washington D.C..

Mid-West Political Science Association (MPSA) – Annual Meeting, 2018. Chicago, Il.

Mid-West Political Science Association (MPSA) – Annual Meeting, 2018. Chicago, Il.

APSA Teaching and Learning Conference (APSA) - TLC 2018. Baltimore, Md. (Track Chair).

Mid-West Political Science Association (MPSA) – Annual Meeting, 2017. Chicago, Il.

Mid-West Political Science Association (MPSA) – Annual Meeting, 2016. Chicago, Il.

Mid-West Political Science Association (MPSA) – Annual Meeting, 2015. Chicago, Il.

APSA Teaching and Learning Conference (APSA) – TLC 2015. Washington DC.

American Political Science Association (APSA) –Annual Meeting. 2014. Washington DC.

Association of Canadian Studies in the United States (ACSUS) – Nov. 19 – 23. Tampa Fl.

STATA Users Conference – July 18^th and 19^th, 2013. New Orleans, LA

Mid-West Political Science Association (MPSA) – Annual Meeting, 2013. Chicago, Il.

APSA Teaching and Learning Conference (APSA) – TLC 2013. Long Beach, CA.

Mid-West Political Science Association (MPSA) – Annual Meeting, 2012. Chicago, Il.

APSA Teaching and Learning Conference (APSA) – TLC 2012. Washington DC.

Mid-West Political Science Association (MPSA) – Annual Meeting, 2011. Chicago, Il.

Association for Canadian Studies in the United States (ACSUS) - Connect Seminar, 2009

American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) – Annual Meeting, 2009. Hollywood, FL.

Mid-West Political Science Association (MPSA) – Annual Meeting, 2009. Chicago, Il.

Kentucky Canadian Studies Roundtable (ACSUS), 2008. Georgetown, KY.

Mid-West Political Science Association (MPSA) – Annual Meeting, 2008. Chicago, Il.

Canadian Institutional Research and Planning Association (CIRPA-ACPRI) – Annual Conference 2005

Summer Institute in Political Psychology (SIPP), 2003. Columbus, OH.

Banff Forum, 2002. Banff, AB. (Organizing Assistant).

Recent Invited lectures

SCAR lecture panelist for 2012. "Behavioral reactions to mass media messages: Google search behavior and the framing of Congressman Ryan". George Mason University, Fairfax, VA. October, 2012.

University of Toronto Political Science Department – “Teaching Political Science Research methods at the Large Research University”. Toronto, ON. November, 2012.

SPP SUSI lecture “Public Opinion and American Political Socialization”. George Mason University, Fairfax, VA. July, 2013.

Fulbright 2016 – Invited Lecture on US Presidential Elections

Recent Media Appearances

Roll Call “Will Trump Abandoning Kurds Hurt Him?” October 16, 2019.

Washington Post Education Supplement “Graduate Research that Changes and Saves Lives” September 11^th, 2019. pp. EZ11 – 12.

NPR Morning Edition “Americans are divided over whether Transgender People should be in the Military”. April 12^th, 2019.

Smithsonian Magazine “Military Intelligence” from America at War Jan-Feb. 2019. Pp. 78 – 79. Available online as “New Poll of U.S. Troops and Veterans Reveals Their Thoughts on Current Military Policies.”

Stars and Stripes “Poll asks troops, veterans thoughts on women in combat, mixed-gender training and more” Jan. 2, 2019.

Service:

Advising

Austin Hofeman (in progress) – PhD Dissertation Committee (chair). GMU. Aaron Stuvland (in progress) – PhD Dissertation Committee.

Josephine Neulen (2020) MA advisor.

Joel Borkert (2014) – Masters Research Project. GMU.

Jonathon Liss (2014) – Undergraduate Research Presentation and Project. GMU. TJ Frederick (2013) – Undergraduate Research Presentation and Project. GMU. Andrew Schaus (2012) – Undergraduate Research Presentation and Project. GMU.

Undergraduate Research Program – Teams from 2016 to 2020; from 4-9 students per year.

• Josephine Neulen – URAP 2016 - 2018, OSCAR, BA (honors) 2018, MA 2020
• Laila Buzrigh, Sally Kishi, Sasha Silva, Elizabeth Jenkins, Kayla Marineau, Alexander Farajdi, and Kathleen Lakatos (Lead). (2020 URAP).
• Nora Malatinszky, Isabella Black, Jonathan Klausner, Melissa Alberto, Kate Lackatos (Lead), Liam Murphy, Marcus Williams, David Moran, Muhammad Safavi (2019 URAP).
• Monika Anic, Alex Ludy, Erik Smetana, Josephine Neulen (Lead) (2018 URAP).

Reviewer

Political Behavior, Journal of Political Science Education, Political Research Quarterly, Political Psychology, textbooks – Sage-CQ Press, Oxford University Press, Routledge

Grants

2019 - $8200 – Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian – Stars and Stripes – Schar School Veterans Day Survey.

2018 - $5000 – NEO Philanthropy (via Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation). Supplemental resources to prepare research follow-up and manuscript for the Government Accountability Office (GAO) on the Financial Access to Charities Survey.

2016 - $28,000 – Charity and Security Network (via Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation).. Financial Access for Charities Survey (With Stefan Toepler). Conducted through GMU Center for Social Science Research.

2013 - $22,000 (combined) – Funds to develop distance education course offering for quantitative research methods for political science, conference presentation and subsequent scholarship.

Committee Work

2020 – 2021 – GMU Mason Continuity Coordination Team (MCCT Committee)

2020 – 2021 – GMU Faculty Senate Technology Policy Committee (Provost appointee)

2020 – 2021 – GMU Instructional Continuity Committee

2018 – 2022 – George Mason University Athletic Council

2018 – 2019 – George Mason University – Mason Core – Computing and IT sub-committee

2018 – 2022 – GMU Schar School Curriculum Committee

2016 – 2021 – Minor Advisor: Political Communication

2015 – 2017 – GMU Schar School Curriculum Committee

2012 – 2013 – GMU PIA- Public Administration Master’s degree NAASPA Accreditation Committee